Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (GBP/SNES Palette Hack)

Original game : Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

Platform : GBA

Author : djedditt

Release date : 26 September 2021

Category : Improvement

Patch version : 1.0

Modifications : G

Downloads : 4646

ROM Information

Filenames are from the No-Intro database.
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Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario Bros. 3 (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It)
CRC32: 37141F32
MD5: 761668B5D01EE9B8E52174EADB5FD2CF
SHA-1: B7F3D6DC014E2F0DDC996137BDEFBB8167A77E66
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Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario Bros. 3 (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It) (Rev 1)
CRC32: 8D84ACFC
MD5: AE8AF6B539D509019BDD06565C10804A
SHA-1: 2E5CE11A893464DC0CCE0A6B451580BA35A7E5DE
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Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario Bros. 3 (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It) (Rev 1) (Virtual Console)
CRC32: D4F45B01
MD5: 733E976FD06D65E9F5635B836A14A81B
SHA-1:00667CE3DA4BFEE3182C4445AC2F5483870BE97C
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Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA)
CRC32: A44BA79F
MD5: 4E5FDE12DBD0441150A9C177E545F56F
SHA-1: 69E81F41394F02D64CAD206ADB26B3CD43690770
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Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA, Australia) (Rev 1)
CRC32: 88DAB27F
MD5: 605286B3AEDEFFBA70BF46B834B120B1
SHA-1: 532F3307021637474B6DD37DA059CA360F612337
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Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA) (Rev 1) (Virtual Console)
CRC32: D4C13AC3
MD5: E7A2792C5913A8420A419F2D01358487
SHA-1: DD2879329EC52BD5372F26B75297A67F1A81215A
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Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario 3 + Mario Brothers (Japan)
CRC32: F3C87306
MD5: E559E292AA9D44287B052342D6469967
SHA-1: 19F7928BC4FFD733D71884DAE9AD9B7F4007D38D
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Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario 3 + Mario Brothers (Japan) (Rev 1)
CRC32: 5A676424
MD5: F45348CC19783709D04AC0C12175B222
SHA-1: FB38A1284013AB4E2480A1AADCEC9400D3A63A1D
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Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario 3 + Mario Brothers (Japan) (Rev 2)
CRC32: 7B1A4C22
MD5: 9B7B3E2567FE71B6F488EE254209E25E
SHA-1: B3349AD79D20F1AE77D3E120F60D60EDDDBBC2D2
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Super Mario Advance 4 - Super Mario 3 + Mario Brothers (Japan) (Rev 2) (Virtual Console)
CRC32: 4AEE9C77
MD5: ED52707B19848C480866A86F28268273
SHA-1: 72CCC0ECCE6CE08EADCE1B3DA4873CDD91851496

Hack description

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3's color palettes are slightly lighter than the original SNES color palettes, to compensate for the dim GBA screen. When the game is played in a Game Boy Player however, the original Super Mario Bros. 3 color palettes are loaded. This patch will enable the Game Boy Player color palettes by default.

This patch does not force the game in Game Boy Player mode unlike the other SMA4 color palette patch out there, which shows a non-functional rumble option in the options menu - a GBP feature. There is a functional cartridge rumble patch however for flash cartridges with rumble support, check it out here: https://retrohackers.net/hack-details.php?id=6234

Contributions

Contributor	Type of contribution	Description
djedditt	Hacking	Reverse engineering and hacking

Reviews

Good Brightness Level	NelsonPalacios2001	2024-03-24	Version 1.0
To be honest, the default brightness of GBA mario games was considerable for the standard Game Boy Advance (AGS-001) models, due to the lack of backlighting due to the fact that it lowered the console's manufacturing costs, so it would be somewhat clear why it designed like that. However, in later models, such as the sp, it has a brightness button, although it only brightens the screen to a certain extent and not completely, so playing it on emulators comes with a clear color palette, so the only solution is with a patch like these that tries to resemble the SNES version that was a remaster of the same game that came collected from SNES Super Mario All-Stars.

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